Yet it is not until Book X that the properties of such a line (with greater length is an apotome and lesser length a first apotome) are explained and not until Book XIII that this type of line is applied, which will be discussed in more detail later. […] The likewise is true of apotomes (X. 97).

Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim'd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat […]

His response amounted to gross insubordination

Indeed, most of the staff is either Hindu or Moslem, but they are full of these pan-deist ideas, and even Zahir deliberately used the Christian word God rather than Allah when talking with me.